ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 4 -- United States Patent no. 12,317,766, issued on June 3.
"Central press wheel inflation system" was invented by Trevor Philip Stanhope (Oak Lawn, Ill.) and Darian E. Landolt (Evanston, Ill.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An agricultural implement system that may utilize a central press wheel inflation system to provide variable pressure to press wheels within multiple row units distributed across a width of the agricultural implement system. The agricultural implement system may automatically modify a shape or contact area of the press wheels using variations of press wheel pressure based on various sensor data and performance/behavior data of other row unit control s...